CLR and CLI - What is the difference?

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Naveen picture Naveen · Jan 26, 2009 · Viewed 36.3k times · Source

I want to know what exactly is the difference between CLR & CLI? From whatever I have read so far, it seems to indicate that CLI is a subset of CLR. But isn't everything in the CLR mandatory? What exactly may be left out of CLR to create a CLI?

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Serafina Brocious picture Serafina Brocious · Jan 26, 2009

The CLR is Microsoft's implementation of the CLI standard.

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